Ian's Shoelace Site

Summary

Ian's Shoelace Site Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place! Welcome! G'day everyone, Ian Fieggen here, also known as “Professor Shoelace”. I'm a real human living in Melbourne, Australia. This website has no “A.I.” content – it's all built with “H.I.” plus Human Effort over more than two decades. Welcome to “Ian's Shoelace Site” – made by one human, for all humans. Table of Contents Lacing Shoes Contains over 100 × step-by-step shoe lacing tutorials, over 2,700 × shoe lacing photos, plus the interactive “Create-a-Lace” for designing your own lacing. Tying Shoes Contains 25 × shoelace knots (including my world's fastest “Ian Knot”), plus info on tying correctly so that they sit straight and stay securely tied – yet can be untied without jamming. Learn About Shoelaces Heaps of knowledge about shoelaces, including their construction, length calculations – even what the tips are called, as well as Ian's interviews, articles, Q&As and more. About Information about this website and the site's author, Ian Fieggen – including Ian's contact details. Also info on this site's sponsors plus ways that you, too, can support Ian. Search This Site Looking for something? This website has more than 300 pages – which can be daunting to wade through! Search the whole of Ian's Shoelace Site using Google Custom Search. Latest Photo 01-Feb-2026 Today's shoe lacing photo was contributed by Guillaume R. in Feb-2026. Tan boots with white trim laced with black & white Over Under Lacing + Double Helix Lacing. Front view of Guillaume's lacing comparison, this time with the shoelaces tightened and knotted. More Shoe Lacing Photos What's New? Updated “Interviews & Articles” 04-Dec-2025 – During Australia's marriage equality debate, PUMA engaged me to create the “Equality Knot”, then sent a film crew to shoot this “content pie...